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Which families gain access to neighborhood and school contexts most conducive to their children’s development? Race and class continue to play central roles given the…

The draw of white and well-resourced suburban public schools has long fueled segregation in America’s metropolitan areas, but what happens when these schools become more…

Since the mid-twentieth century, many American suburbs have transformed from lily white enclaves to multiracial milieus. How do advantaged families respond? With residential…

Providing between $25,000 and $100,000 per unit in assistance for shared equity homeownership opportunities would allow approximately 6.6 million additional households to…

Previous studies of the financial constraints for homeownership attainment have found that cash grants to cover down payment and closing costs can fairly substantially…

Commonly-used measures of the homeownership rate generally describe aggregate trends consistent with the image of young households that start out as renters, become…

Children experience many changes in their households while they are growing up. But while we often think about divorcing and remarrying parents as common changes in household…

Research on family instability typically measures changes in coresident parents, but children also experience changes among other household members. The likelihood of…

Foreclosures have negative effects not only for the people who lose their homes, but also for the neighborhoods where they lived. In an article that recently appeared in…

Compared to children who do not move to a new home, children who move are more likely to do worse in school, have more physical and mental health problems, and are more…